Active solid-state devices (e.g. – transistors – solid-state diode – Housing or package – With contact or lead
Reexamination Certificate
2005-04-12
2008-10-28
Williams, Alexamder O (Department: 2826)
Active solid-state devices (e.g., transistors, solid-state diode
Housing or package
With contact or lead
C257SE23142, C257S701000, C257S758000, C257S751000, C257S774000, C257S773000, C257S665000, C716S030000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07443020
ABSTRACT:
Dummy stacks, each providing a common point of connectivity potentially across all metal layers, are incorporated along with the functional block in an integrated circuit. When the connectivity of elements of the functional block need to be changed later, the dummy stacks enable masks, which would otherwise need to be redesigned, to be further redesigned to obtain the desired connectivity. As a result, the redesign of some of the other masks, may be avoided, thereby reducing the total number of masks which would need to be redesigned while effecting a change in the connectivity of elements in a functional block.
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Abyad Mima
Brady III Wade J.
Telecky , Jr. Frederick J.
Texas Instruments Incorporated
Williams Alexamder O
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